Of all of the recent technological developments that have expanded the surveillance capabilities of law enforcement agencies at the expense of individual privacy, perhaps the most powerful is cell ...
ICE recently purchased two programs called Tangles and Webloc, which are used to track the cell phone activity of entire ...
A Milwaukee PD "critical response vehicle", or surveillance van. (Photo by Isiah Holmes/Wisconsin Examiner) A Milwaukee PD "critical response vehicle", or surveillance van. (Photo by Isiah ...
Capitalizing on all the information we put into our cell phones, Verizon Wireless is selling all our app usage and location information to marketers, reports CNET's Declan McCullagh. Part of what it ...
MONTPELIER The Office of the Vermont Attorney General has blocked efforts to find out whether law-enforcement officials are using cell-phone technology to pinpoint the whereabouts of private citizens, ...
It’s a plot George Orwell would love. Every citizen is issued a device that keeps track of his every move, stores his personal information, controls his banking accounts, knows who he knows, what he ...
Knoxville — This is a story that begins at the end -- the end of the life of Jessica Lyday -- and works its way backward. It's the story of how police, using the overdose victim's cellphone, tracked ...
Two hikers had to be tracked down after getting lost on a Western Massachusetts trail. The hikers were on Sanderson Brook Falls, which is in Chester-Blandford State Forest. Hikes in the area range ...